Print Greek letters with tonos using Unicode

[hai...@histomat.net]

The I look up Greek tonos letters with albatross and am told that DeJa Vu Sans

handles them. In fact, they do no appear in a PDF compiled with lualatex. Here

is a mwe:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily{\dej}{DejaVu Sans} %
\begin{document}

Alpha: \symbol{"0391}\\ % this   prints
alpha with tonos: \symbol{"03AC}\\ % this does not
Alpha with tonos \symbol{"0386}  % this does not

\end{document}

[Peter Flynn]

You have loaded the font \dej but you have not used it.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily{\dej}{DejaVu Sans} %
\begin{document}

\dej
Alpha: \symbol{"0391}\\ % this prints Α
alpha with tonos: ά
Alpha with tonos Ά
\end{document}

If you use the font with the characters you can just type them: you
don't need the \symbol{hex}.

But if you are writing in Greek,

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainfont{DejaVu Serif}
\setmainlanguage{greek}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\begin{document}
Alpha: \symbol{"0391} (αυτό εκτυπώνει το A)

άλφα με τόνο Α: ά

Άλφα με τόνο Ά
\end{document}

(Excuse my errors, I don't speak Greek).

Peter

[Peter Flynn]

On 28/10/2025 20:28, 'hai...@histomat.net' via LaTeX Users Group wrote:

> The I look up Greek tonos letters with albatross and am told that DeJa
> Vu Sans
> handles them.

There is a Greek TeX User Group who may be able to offer more help.

https://www.ntg.nl/lug/gr.html

Peter